Word: junior
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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SOPHOMORES and Juniors, anticipating required studies next year, have for the basis of their examinations the ground gone over this year. Sophomores may anticipate History, Political Economy, Physics, Rhetoric, and French. Rhetoric and Philosophy may be anticipated by Juniors. The examination in History will include Freeman's Historical Outlines (Chaps. VI. - XIII), and Guizot's History of Civilization (pp. 61 - 237, omitting pp. 189 - 192). The books on Political Economy are Mrs. Fawcett's Political Economy for beginners, and Alden's Science of Government (Chaps. VI. - XVIII., and pp. 262 - 264). In Physics the books are Balfour Stewart's Lessons...
...province of ordinary inorganic chemistry. While it gives him a little practical and experimental work, it takes him a step into the field of theory and gives him a foretaste of its higher branches. The laboratory work is confined to the study of the most important elements and acids. Junior qualitative analysis is mostly a laboratory course, requiring some manipulation and a fair memory. It consists of lectures on the most prominent bases and acids with experimental practice in the analysis of liquids and solids. Mineralogy is also a laboratory course of blow-pipe analysis; it requires a good memory...
PERHAPS it would be well to look at the 3d proof of the Annuals before saying that Junior Annuals begin Saturday...
...what he calls "temporary adhesiveness," one would have supposed that the odious practice must have vanished wholly from the land. Yet probably never, during the existence of the College, has cramming ever been required more absolutely than at two examinations in metaphysics which have lately been given the Junior class. These examinations have been an hour in length, and the matter required has been an abstract of the portion of the book gone over previous to the examination. Now there is a way of looking at this plan so that it will appear a good one, but such a point...
...care in instruction on the part of Cornell's teachers in rhetoric and themes. It says that more attention is paid to literary training at Cornell than at any other college in the country; the work of the Harvard Sophomore year being performed in their Freshman, that of the Junior in their Sophomore, while "during the Senior year the range of work performed here and at Harvard and Yale is too immeasurably great to allow of comparison." With what, pray? Perhaps, however, the editor of the Times did not think it worth his while to take advantage of these extraordinary...